tutoring

Today my class of Experience Corps students celebrated their 100th day of school! When I got to school the teacher had placed “100th day of school” signs all over the walls. To celebrate, the children made crowns with a “100” featured prominently on the front, and decorated their headband with 100 hearts, numbers, triangles, dots, letters-whatever they were moved to create. And even if they didn’t get 100 “somethings” down on the paper, when the adults stapled the bands to fit …

Earlier this month I began my Experience Corps work with Washington, D.C. elementary school kids to build their reading skills. It has been both exhilarating and exhausting. And although I’m having a tremendous amount of fun, I am already developing calluses on my back side getting used to sitting in a chair that’s only 14 inches off the ground! H. L. Mencken once famously said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” My Experience Corps corollary …